The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley

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00 – A Word to the Children

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01 – Our Pretty Dragonflies

02 – The Fairy May Flies

03 – The Stone Fly Folk

04 – The Silver Fish

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05- The Old Cockroaches

06 – Neighbor Walking Stick

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07 – The Grasshopper Tribes

08 – The Shorthorned Grasshoppers

09 – The Longhorned Grasshoppers

10 – Pretty Katydids

11 – The Cricket-Like Grasshoppers

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12 – The Cheery Cricket People

13 – A Large Family

14 – The Great Bug Family

15 – The Water Boatman

16 – The Funny Back-Swimmers

17 – The Giant Water Bug

18 – Little Mrs. Shore Bug

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19 – The Airy Water Striders

20 – A Queer Fellow

21 – The Well Dressed Lace Bug

22 – A Bad Bug

23 – The Troublesome Red Bug

24 – The Ravenous Chinch Bugs

25 – The Well Protected Stink Bug

26 – The Louse

27 – Bird Lice and Book Lice

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28 – Friend Cicada

29 – The Odd Spittle Insect

30 – Pretty Leaf Hoppers

31 – The Comical Tree Hoppers

32 – The Jumping Plant Lice

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33 – The Aphids

34 – Scale Bugs

35 – The Horned Corydalus

36 – Fairy Lacewing

37 – The Ant Lion

38 – The Little Caddice Flies

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